Recently I posted an article on how EDA extends SOA and why it is important. I am very pleased this article is gaining popularity in the SOA/EDA community. The posting is also available as a downloadable PDF, which I frequently extend with additional content.

Michael Meehan, news editor at SearchWebServices.com, has identified the top eight SOA stories for 2006. Not only does he quote me liberally, which might just prompt me to blogas a vanity exercise, but he advances SOA understanding by choosing andranking these trends and topics well.

While i spent the day in the sun at the cricket watching Australia totally decimate England a storm has been brewing in the blogosphere over Microsoft giving away Ferrari Acer laptops loaded with Vista to bloggers to review - and if they want, to keep.

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While I was in Amsterdam, an editor of Europe’s Banking and Finance magazine invited me to contribute an opinion piece on the IT (they favor Information and Communications Technology or ICT) component of mergers and acquisitions in the banking industry.

This is funny! A project to put geostationary banana over Texas. Why didn't they pick a place in Canada? The project leader, Cesar Saez, is based in Montreal, Quebec.

Fantastic article by Jem Matzan provides the background and specifics on why support for Wi-Fi in open-source, GPL, and free operating systems is so problematic: Matzan has done a superior job in tying together the technical, political, and legal reasons why it's just so darn hard for OS developers outside of major, proprietary, for-fee releases (i.e., Windows and Mac OS X) to obtain the necessary pieces to support any given Wi-Fi device. (Mac OS X is quasi-proprietary: Large parts of the system are dependent on open-source and related software, but Apple keeps many elements of its system private.)

TechCrunch has details of a developing story involving the Gmail accounts of 60 users who found all emails deleted due to a suspected breach in FireFox.

I’ve been giving some thought to why Microsoft’s attempt to reach out to bloggers, by sending them free Vista-loaded laptops, went horribly wrong.